Re: m68k build failures in -next: undefined reference to `arch_dma_prep_coherent'

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi GÃnter,

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 7:06 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I see the following build error in -next:
>
> kernel/dma/direct.o: In function `dma_direct_alloc_pages':
> direct.c:(.text+0x4d8): undefined reference to `arch_dma_prep_coherent'
>
> Example: m68k:allnoconfig.
>
> Bisect log is ambiguous and points to the merge of m68k/for-next into
> -next. Yet, I think the problem is with commit 69878ef47562 ("m68k:
> Implement arch_dma_prep_coherent()") which is supposed to introduce
> the function. The problem is likely that arch_dma_prep_coherent()
> is only declared if CONFIG_MMU is enabled, but it is called from code
> outside CONFIG_MMU.

Thanks, one more thing to fix in m68k-allnoconfig (did it really build
before?)...

Given you say "example", does it fail in real configs, too?

Thanks again!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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